CLE Credit

ACS is a State Bar of California approved CLE provider. Eight of the 2014 National Convention programs will offer California CLE credit. These eight programs have also been approved for Illinois CLE credit. In addition, New York CLE credit will be available for these programs in accordance with New York’s Approved Jurisdiction Policy. If you would like to receive credit for a state other than these three, please check with that state’s CLE governing body. For any other questions on obtaining CLE credit for attendance at the ACS National Convention, please e-mail koconnor@acslaw.org. 

The following eight programs will feature CLE credit:

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 20:

Judicial Activism Then and Now, 9:15 am – 10:45 am

1.5 hours (CA, IL)

• Geoffrey R. Stone, Citizens United and Conservative Judicial Activism, 2012 U. Ill. L. Rev. 485 (2012)
• Linda Greenhouse, Actively Engaged, N.Y. Times Opinionator (Oct. 19, 2011, 9:30 PM)
• Alan B. Morrison, Revisiting Judicial Activism: The Right and Wrong Kinds, ACS Issue Brief (Sept. 17, 2013).
• Laurence Tribe & Joshua Matz, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution (forthcoming June 2014).

The Privatization of America, 11 am – 12:15 pm  

1.25 hours (CA, IL)

• Jon D. Michaels, Privatization’s Progeny, 101 Geo. L.J. 1023 (2013)
• Jon Michaels, An Enduring, Evolving Separation of Powers, 115 Colum. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2015).
• Miriam Seifter, Rent-a-Regulator: Design and Innovation in Privatized Governmental Decisionmaking, 33 Ecology L.Q. 1091 (2006).
• Kimberly Brown, Government by Contract and the Structural Constitution, 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. 491 (2011).
• Reuben A. Guttman, The Privatization of America, ACS Blog (Mar. 21, 2014).
• Paul R. Verkuil, Privatizing Due Process, 57 Admin. L. Rev. 963 (2005).

Beyond a Broken Beltway: State Courts, Legislatures and Cities as Venues for Progressive Change, 2 pm – 3:30 pm

1.5 hours (CA, IL)

• Joanna Shepherd, Justice at Risk: An Empirical Analysis of Campaign Contributions and Judicial Decisions (2013).
• Billy Corriher, Criminals and Campaign Cash: The Impact of Judicial Campaign Spending on Criminal Defendants (2013).
• Billy Corriher, Conservative Politicians are Lashing Out at Courts that Order Equal Funding for Education (2014).
• Joshua A. Douglas, The Right to Vote Under State Constitutions, 67 Vand. L. Rev. 89 (2014).
• Alicia Bannon, Eric Velasco, Linda Casey & Lianna Reagan, Justice at Stake, Brennan Ctr. for Justice & Nat’l Inst. on Money in State Politics, The New Politics of Judicial Elections, 2011-12 (Laurie Kinney & Peter Hardin, Justice at Stake eds., 2013).
• Kathleen S. Morris, Expanding Local Enforcement of State and Federal Consumer Protection Laws, 40 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1903 (2013).

The Web as the New Battleground over Free Expression, 3:45 pm – 5 pm  

1.25 hours (CA, IL)

• Lee Rowland & Gabe Rottman, New Proposal Could Singlehandedly Cripple Free Speech Online, ACLU Blog Rts. (Aug. 1, 2013, 5:10 PM).
• Helen Norton & Danielle Keats Citron, Government Speech 2.0, 87 Denv. U. L. Rev. 899 (2010).
• Frank D. LoMonte, Reaching Through the Schoolhouse Gate: Students’ Eroding First Amendment Rights in a Cyber-Speech World, ACS Issue Brief (Mar. 2, 2009).
• Danielle Keats Citron & Mary Anne Franks, Criminalizing Revenge Porn, 49 Wake Forest L. Rev. 345 (2014).
• Garrett Epps, ‘Free Speech’ and the 1st Amendment Aren’t Always the Same Thing, The Atlantic (Sept. 27, 2012, 10:19 AM).

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 21:

Shedding Light on the PRISM of Government, 9:15 am – 11:00 am

1.75 hours (CA, IL)

• Rosa Brooks, Duck-Rabbits and Drones: Legal Indeterminacy in the War on Terror, Stan. L. & Pol’y Rev. (forthcoming).
• Stephen I. Vladeck, Standing and Secret Surveillance, 9 I/S: J.L. & Pol’y for Info. Soc’y (forthcoming 2014).
• Geoffrey R. Stone, Understanding Obama’s NSA Proposals, ACS Blog (Mar. 28, 2014).
• Deborah Pearlstein, Enhancing Due Process in Targeted Killing, ACS Issue Brief (Oct. 24, 2013).
• Richard Clarke, Michael Morell, Geoffrey Stone, Cass Sunstein & Peter Swire, Liberty and Security in a Changing World: Report and Recommendations of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies (2013).

Your Day in Court?: The Undermining of Access to Justice, 11:15 am – 12:45 pm

1.5 hours (CA, IL)

• Arthur R. Miller, Simplified Pleading, Meaningful Days in Court, and Trials on the Merits: Reflections on the Deformation of Federal Procedure, 88 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 286 (2013).
• Alan B. Morrison, The Door to Specific Jurisdiction Narrows Again, Nat’l L.J. (Mar. 10, 2014).
• Alan B. Morrison, Narrowing the Availability of General Personal Jurisdiction, Nat’l L.J. (Jan. 21, 2014).
• Alan B. Morrison, The Sounds of Silence: The Irrelevance of Congressional Inaction in Separation of Powers Litigation, 81 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1211 (2013).
• Alan B. Morrison, Opinion: Justices Sensibly Resolve a ‘Forum Shopping’ Problem, Nat’l L.J. (Dec. 10, 2013).
• Robert L. Weinberg, Applying the Rationale of Twombly to Provide Safeguards for the Accused in Federal Criminal Cases, ACS Issue Brief (July 2, 2013).
• Nancy Gertner, The Virtual Repeal of Kennedy-Johnson Administrations’ ‘Signature Achievement,’ HuffPost Blog (Nov. 20, 2013, 5:35 PM).
• Nancy Gertner, Losers’ Rules, 122 Yale L.J. Online 109 (2012).
• Suzette M. Malveaux, An Unrecognized Blockbuster; Amex and Class Arbitration, ACS Blog (July 22, 2013).
• Suzette M. Malveaux, How Goliath Won: The Future Implications of Dukes v. Wal-Mart, 106 Nw. U. L. Rev. 34 (2011).

Is There a Better Way to Appoint Federal Judges?, 11:15 am – 12:45 pm

1.5 hours (CA, IL)

• Russell Wheeler, Is Our Dysfunctional Process for Filling Judicial Vacancies an Insoluble Problem?, ACS Issue Brief (Jan. 24, 2013).
• Russell Wheeler, Judicial Nominations and Confirmations: Fact and Fiction, Brookings FixGov (Dec. 30, 2013, 10:33AM).
• Russell R. Wheeler, What’s Behind all Those Judicial Vacancies Without Nominees?, Governance Studies at Brookings (April 18, 2013).
• Judith Resnik, Democratic Responses to the Breadth of Power of the Chief Justice, in Reforming the Court: Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices 181 (Roger C. Cramton & Paul D. Carrington, eds., 2006).
• Judith Resnik, Judicial Selection and Democratic Theory: Demand, Supply, and Life Tenure, 26 Cardozo L. Rev. 579 (2005).
• Judith Resnik, So Long: Changing the Judicial Pension System Could Keep Justices from Staying on the Bench for Too Many Years, Legal Aff. (July 2005).
• Dave R. Stras & Ryan W. Scott, Are Senior Judges Unconstitutional?, 92 Cornell L. Rev. 453 (2013).
• Akhil Amar, Commentary, Term Limits for the High Court, Yale L. Sch. (Aug. 9, 2002).
• Michael Gerhardt & Richard Painter, “Extraordinary Circumstances:” The Legacy of the Gang of 14 and a Proposal for Judicial Nominations Reform, ACS Issue Brief (Nov. 1, 2011).

Polluted Equality?  The State of Environmental Justice, 11:15 am – 12:45 pm

1.5 hours (CA, IL)

• Patrice L. Simms, Environmental Justice: A Pillar of Next-Generation Policymaking, ACS Blog (Mar. 4, 2014).
• Daria E. Neal, Healthy Schools: A Major Front in the Fight for Environmental Justice, 38 Envtl. L. 473 (2008).
• Deborah N. Behles, From Dirty to Green: Increasing Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Environmental Justice Communities, 58 Vill. L. Rev. 25 (2013).
• Exec. Order No. 12898, 59 F.R. 7629 (Feb. 11, 1994).